Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan's gold-selling third studio album reissueHybrid Stereo SACD from Analogue Productions!Mastered direct to DSD from the original master tape by Bernie GrundmanPlays in all CD and SACD playersSteely Dan's gold-selling third studio album Pretzel Logic, charted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and restored the group's radio presence with the single 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number, ' which became the biggest pop hit of their career and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1974 album was produced by Gary Katz and was written primarily by Walter Becker (bass) and bandleader Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards). The album marked the beginning of Becker and Fagen's roles as Steely Dan's principal members.They enlisted prominent Los Angeles-based studio musicians to record Pretzel Logic, but used them only for occasional overdubs, except for drums, where founding drummer Jim Hodder was reduced to a backing singer, replaced by Jim Gordon and Jeff Porcaro on the drum kit for all of the songs on the album. Steely Dan's Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter played pedal steel guitar and hand drums.Pretzel Logic has shorter songs and fewer instrumental jams than the group's 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy. Steely Dan considered it the band's attempt at complete musical statements within the three-minute pop-song . The album's music is characterized by harmonies, counter-melodies, and bop phrasing. It also relies often on straightforward pop influences. The syncopated piano line that opens 'Rikki Don't Lose That Number' develops into a pop melody, and the title track transitions from a blues song to a jazzy chorus.Rolling Stone praised the album, calling Steely Dan the 'most improbable hit-singles band to emerge in ages.''When the band doesn't undulate to samba rhythms (as it did on 'Do It Again, ' it's first Top Ten single), it pushes itself to a full gallop (as it did on